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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 26525759, member: 15309&quot;]You absolutely do have to see the coins in hand to draw the conclusions.&nbsp; Not only that, but when making the assertion that they are the same as the Smithsonian coins, you would need to compare both sets of coins in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is undeniable that the coins must have a different appearance than the run of the mill business strikes, otherwise, there would be no way to differentiate them from said business strikes.&nbsp; It can&#039;t just be based solely on the superior level of preservation, which would simply result in a high grade, not an SMS designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, why would the mint director have assembled these sets in the first place if the coins weren&#039;t special? And even if she had them created from &quot;First Strikes&quot; and the difference in appearance is explained by the different luster profile generated by VEDS, that still makes the coins contained in those specially generated sets &quot;presentation pieces&quot;.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t want to call them SMS because they didn&#039;t have a method of manufacture that was wholly different than that utilized in the making of business strikes, then okay, but to just call them ordinary business strikes is preposterous IMO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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